RE: Read stream files by data/time? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: Read stream files by data/time?
From: Richard Schoen <Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 14:32:47 +0000
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How are you judging redundancy ?

Surely not just date and time.

Are you looking at the contents of the file or do they have special prefixes ?

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Richard Schoen
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date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 00:20:44 +0000
from: Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Read stream files by data/time?

Is there an API that will process all stream files within a dir by date/time?

I'm inheriting a number of PDF files (about 625k) from our Windows team. I need to catalogue and remove redundant files. I'm thinking that if I can read the files in descending order by date/time, I can keep the first file and just delete future redundant files.

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